| Code | DS/UK/P346 |
| Dates | 1891-1972 |
| Person Name | Shawn; Ted (1891-1972) |
| Surname | Shawn |
| Forenames | Ted |
| Activity | US dancer, teacher and choreographer. First public appearance as a dancer in Denver in 1911; opened a dance school in Los Angeles and appeared in one of the very first dance films, Dance of the Ages; toured with a small company in New York in 1914 and met and married Ruth St Denis; 1915 founded Denishawn with Ruth St Denis; the company toured widely until it was disbanded in 1931 after his separation from St Denis; formed his won Company of Male Dancers in 1933 and bought a farm in Massachusetts called Jacob's Pillow which he turned into a dance studio; after disbanding his company in 1940 he became the director of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and summer school; a prolific choreographer he created around 190 works for Denishawn and over 50 works for his own male company. |
| Relationships | Wife Ruth St Denis |
| Gender | Male |
| Dates and Places | b. Kansas Vity, 21 Oct. 1891, d. Orlando, Florida, 9 Jan. 1972 |
| Published Works | Ruth St Denis: Pioneer and Prophet (1920); Gods Who Dance (1929); Every Little Movement (1954); One Thousand and One Night Stands, (with Gary Poole, 1960) |
| Source | Craine, D and Mackrell, J. Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NM/B/951 | Dance We Must |
| PH/B/1142 | Ted Shawn \ Father of American Dance |
| XZB/543 | Every Little Movement \ Book About Francois Delsarte, A |
| XZB/544 | Dance We Must |
| NM/B/869 | Shawn the Dancer |
| DH/B/2163 | One Thousand and One Night Stands |
| DS/B/706 | Every Little Movement \ A book about Francois Delsarte |
| AW/E/5/14 | Private Sessions Laban, W.Lamb, G Stephenson | 1954-1960 |
| DH/B/2225 | Dance Makers: Conversations with American Choreographers, The |
| XZB/546 | Ruth St Denis \ Pioneer & prophet, being a history of her cycle of oriental dances by Ted Shawn \ Volume II \ the plates |
| XZB/524 | Professional Appearances of Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers: A Chronology and an Index of Dances, 1933-1940, The |
| XZB/2694 | Soaring; The Diary and Letters of a Denishawn Dancer in the Far East, 1925-1926 |
| XZG/731 | Dance on Film presented by the Society for Dance Research \ Bloomsbury Theatre, London \ 19 May 1984 | 19 May 1984 |
| XZG/732 | Dance on Film by the Society for Dance Research \ Bloomsbury Theatre, London \ 19 May 1984 | 19 May 1984 |
| NCPE/3/31 | 16 Dances in 16 Rhythms (Shawn, Ted) | n.d. |
| NCPE/4/20 | Three Prayers (in Labanotation) | n.d. |